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Keep him at it. According to my parent educator, kids develop this desire to be helpful at about three and keep it until they are five, unless we foster it. I have a hard time letting Theron help me because he's so slow, but I try to just slow down a little for him so that he keeps wanting to be helpful.

isaiah has loved to follow after me cleaning since he learned to walk! and he loves to do it on his own too. i hope he keeps that interest. i give him his own spray bottle of water and a rag and he goes to town, and i don't worry about messes that way. and i direct him to doing things that won't break or dirty anything, like handing me dishes from the dishwasher or holding the dustpan when i sweep or using the attachment thingamabobs on the vacuum. i love cleaning with him. at school they sing a song about cleaning whenever it's time to organize the classroom and now he sings that whenever it occurs to him to clean - "clean up, clean up, now it's time to clean up!"

isn't it amazing how one tiny act of adorability just erases all of the monstrous things they do? :)